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"If the question begins, 'Why don't they…?' the answer is money." -- Robert Heinlein
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This is quite interesting, but being a CS guy who just took a few hardware courses 15 years ago, there's something I'm missing here. I thought that if you took a ROM and just fed addresses and a clock signal into it, you'd get the data on t
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A has his problems, and I'm not sure that I'd hire him... but here's something to think about: If you hire A, the next person that you interview will see A and think "there are geniuses here". If you hire B, the next person that you intervi
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> Even Java has reflection We were debating PERL vs. Ruby. Java's irrelevant.
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> Ruby and Perl are similar enough that I'm pretty sure I can take a "maintainable" program in either one and port it to the other with minimal changes Without intending to flame, I can't imagine that you'd say this if you've used some
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by tjic 17y ago
I've got an admin interface to an ecommerce website. The admin screen gives access to all sorts of entities: series of videos, individual videos, copies of DVDs, customers, wiki pages, etc. Let's say that there are 40 different types of en
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by tjic 17y ago
Every half-baked, low-quality, ill-designed language has defenders somewhere on the web. Why is this news? In my professional career I've used C, C++, Perl, and Ruby. I come with no preexisting biases. ...but after having written several
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by tjic 17y ago
If I had to rank-order the various humiliations I've seen, this comes near the top. Microsoft: "here's our best stab at what a great browser looks like - and it took us 14 years to get here". Google: "we've been working on a codebase for 2
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by tjic 17y ago
Quick - someone tell Seth that his brand is being crapped all over at [sethgodin].news.ycombinator.com, but he can own the sidebar for a low low monthly price of ...
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> The idea would be that the tenants of the building would be hardware startups who would use the space during the day, and it would be open for hacking and workshops by night. So you're going to look for startups where all the employee
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What does this have to do with HN? Political, biased, and uninteresting.
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Private owners respect and conserve their resources. Governments (which is to say, politicians with short lifespans in their job) use up resources in a rush to accomplish short term, idiotic goals. You can look at the environmental records
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by tjic 17y ago
"Traffic Calming" strikes me as a bug, not a feature. I can do "phone calming" but disconnecting a phone for a few hours each day. I can do "mail calming" by threatening the postal delivery guy. I can do "mall calming" by super glueing the
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by tjic 17y ago
What does it mean that it's "sub pixel" ? Given that each character is several pixels tall and wide, that seems like a misnomer, unless I'm missing something...
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One thing I saw in the comments: > If they still have 30 million in the bank of the 55 million, why are they raising more money? Answer: it's always easier to raise money when you don't need it.
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31 data points? I know that when we run A/B tests on our website, and calculate confidence intervals, we often need thousands of conversions before we see results that we are convinced are statistically significant.
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> Realize that in a confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins-- not through strength, but rather through perseverance. So an almost infinite series of water molecules ^H^H^H startups can each spend themselves
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No pictures? :-(
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> It's a mystery to me why in a case of clear and substantial wrongdoing such as this, no individual prosecutions occur It's not at all clear to me that any wrongdoing took place. Pfizer communicated true information that the government
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> pitching drugs to patients and doctors for unapproved uses I dislike the fact that the First Amendment has been basically written out of existence in certain cases. Why should it be illegal for Pfizer to tell people TRUE statements ab
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> Unless he had a pre-order form for the book as the landing page, that's not generally accepted. This sounds like an assertion with no real knowledge to back it up. What does "generally" mean? Either it's acceptable or it's not. Here
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> Internal Server Error For Firefox 3.0. Take home lesson: don't promote your website at HN if it's broken.
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> Where's the line between good self-promotion and spam? It's the smiley face.
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This is fascinating. OTOH, it depresses me - we try to do a fair bit of analysis on surfing patterns, A/B testing features at http://SmartFlix.com , looking at average basket size, etc. ...and now I've got to worry that I've got "confoundi
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> "Do you really feel like you need a motor to help you pedal?" Not all environmentalists are ideologues, but many are (not to say that other points of view are better or worse in this regard). Much of the problem that I have with le
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Who's views aren't shaped, in part, by their father?
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> Modern couples cohabitate before getting married some modern couples cohabitate before getting married
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> bbn.com, think.com, mcc.com, dec.com and northrop.com I worked in a startup (OpenMarket) that moved into Think's old office space. I was offered a job from DEC when I graduated college. I worked with Tom Knight from Symbolics when I
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I've got a fairly extensive list of contacts, and I've put them all into linked in ... ...and I never use it for anything. Obviously some people have figured out how to use LI for their benefit, but I haven't.
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Great article. Re: >All Prices are Arbitrary I note that this varies by sector. If you're selling books, then your price is bounded by the wholesale price (on the bottom end) and the MSRP (on the high end). Note to self: for my next st

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